#but not everyone is

[dracothelizard]

I get that the s2 teaser has reignited the whole 'Ed is/isn't literate' wank, but it'd be nice if fandom could remember that literacy is a spectrum.

It may help to think of it as learning a foreign language. That also comes with degrees of fluency depending on how much time/practice/effort you put into it.

Can I read a menu in a German restaurant and know what I do or don't want to order? Sure. Can I read and understand a German legal contract? Hell no.

We do not need 'Stede teaches Ed to read' or 'Ed needs Izzy to read and write ship's logs' because 😬 We also do not need pushback against tropes like that that veer into what I hope is unintentional classism and xenophobia, where of course Ed has high literacy in English because he's a genius and would've obviously taught himself to read and write complex English texts. Going 'well of course this genius character has high literacy in English' is also kinda 😬.

I emphasise the English bit also because we are shown Jim writing in Spanish, but we don't know exactly how fluent they are in reading and writing English. They can read the wanted poster. Maybe they are not as fluent and literate in English as they are in Spanish, and that's fine. It does not make Jim any less intelligent.

Canon shows repeatedly that high literacy in general and high literacy in English specifically have nothing to do with someone's intelligence. It would be nice if fandom remembered that.

(And let's be real, if you want to talk about OFMD and representation, having characters who have low literacy but are successful and skilled in their profession also counts!)

#ofmd #ofmd s2 teaser #Low literacy is still a thing today! #A lot of us in fandom are nerds who love reading and writing for fun #But not everyone is #Anyway literacy is a spectrum #I also headcanon Ed as being able to get by in several different languages because he's been at sea so long #With international crews and robbing non-English merchants #While Stede is of course the monolingual Anglo

[itsatorchwoodthing]

not everyone in the fandom is lucky enough to buy hundreds of euros worth of cds im sorry

#im lucky to own more than a few #very lucky #but not everyone is

[cemeterything]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

#🐉 #human rules is you can go nuts show nuts but so can everyone else

[ganondorf]

#everyone stop being annoying and inflammatory and go play bomb rush cyberfunk

[theredtours]

why yes I AM making boop gifs from screen recording

#they're transparent and i'll post them when I am finished. #I won't even tag them because everyone should have them #boop #text

[cahootings]

I redownload this app for one day once every maybe two months and unfortunately I’m rewarded every time

#everyone reblogging this needs to go stream our flag means death on max #and suck your friends’ fingers

[redvelvetwishtree]

#of course everyone is silent #fuck israel #fuck the US #palestine #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #middle east #free gaza #israel

[greelin]

can you come collect your freak of a man please. He’s doing things

#everyone on here showing me Images

[adulthoodisokay]

happy new year, y’all

#what a year this week has been #everyone is okay but C’MON

[noonbeam17]

theyre in a polycule

#noonbeam thinks theyre funny #this is about tdb act 4. do not derail /silly #cant wait to see everyone tagging this as ultrakill

[bobbyjean]

#archer fx #but everyone else’s tags on this are incredible

[lastoneout]

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

#MR. KELLOGG I WOULD LIKE A FUCKING WORD #beating this man's fucking corpse with a broom #I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR POOP AND WEIRD CHRISTIAN NONSENSE NOW EVERYONE THINKS PLEASURE IS BAD FOR YOU #KILLING AND BITING AND MAIMING

[heyitsphoenixx]

the sun literally sets and casts a golden hue over everything every single day and we fucked it all up and invented paying rent

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

#dungeon meshi #chilchuk tims #senshi #Somewhat of an unofficial sequel to the Dragon Comic. I promise I have more versatility in my jokes. I just had to take this opportunity. #Senshi is pretty much a recluse. I think he would know a few of these 'gottems' but not all. #Chilchuck would know gottems that are nearly lost to time. The deep cuts. The ones that you fall for because they are that obscure. #I would also like to take a moment to confess that after the last comic in which I posed a gottem - #I fell victim to a Mind Goblin Attack. I was thoroughly got. I will be on higher alert this time. #So NOBODY be funny in the tags. I am gullible and I like to share things with my friends. Who are *ruthless*. #I have a mild resistance to Vicious Mockery at this point but I can only take so much. #Happy Thistle Thursday Everyone! See you next week!

[sleepygaymerdisease]

#'who was this about' dont worry <3 #EDIT hi i didnt realize this would get notes LOL. um everyone reblog with what character ur thinking of because im NOSEY i WANNA SEE #edit 2 to everyone trying to guess what the character i made this for was. youre all wrong. this was about kamen rider #youd think lupin because of my profile picture but alas i have other interests as well... #anis gaymer moments

[brain--rott]

"everybody experiences that" says mother who has the same symptom of the same mental illness

#ethan speaks #get therapy #living like this isnt normal and not everyone experiences this #bpd #paranoia #ocd #ptsd #dissosiation